The Real Mound Builders Of North America

Author : A. Martin Byers
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666901288
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Mound Builders of North America written by A. Martin Byers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential structures and traditions, varying only in ceremonial practices that manifested these structures.

Author : George R. Milner
Publisher : London : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500284681
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moundbuilders written by George R. Milner and published by London : Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian Indian societies of eastern North America, this wide-ranging and copiously illustrated volume covers the entire sweep of Eastern Woodlands prehistory, with an emphasis on how these societies developed from hunter-gatherers to village farmers and town-dwellers.

Author : Wayne N. May
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977831678
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Mormon Evidences and the Mound Builders of North America written by Wayne N. May and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George R. Milner
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775451
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moundbuilders: Ancient Societies of Eastern North America: Second Edition written by George R. Milner and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape. Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide-ranging and richly illustrated volume covers the entire prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands and the thousands of earthen mounds that can be found there, built between 3100 BCE and 1600 CE. The second edition of The Moundbuilders has been brought fully up-to-date, with the latest research on the peopling of the Americas, including more coverage of pre-Clovis groups, new material on Native American communities in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries CE, and new narratives of migration drawn from ancient and modern DNA. Far-reaching and illustrated throughout, this book is the perfect visual guide to the region for students, tourists, archaeologists, and anyone interested in ancient American history.

Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080616669X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mound Builder Myth written by Jason Colavito and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would you call it fake news? In nineteenth-century America, this was in fact a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny. The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s pioneering archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with Presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln adding their approval and the Mormon Church among those benefiting. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history—and enumerating its devastating consequences for contemporary Native people. Built upon primary sources and first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells is a forgotten chapter of American history—but one that reads like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of government, religion, and science. And as far-fetched as it now might seem that a lost white race once ruled prehistoric America, the damage done by this “ancient” myth has clear echoes in today’s arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism, “alternative facts,” and the role of science and the control of knowledge in public life.

Author : E. Barrie Kavasch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595661817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mound Builders of Ancient North America written by E. Barrie Kavasch and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Mound Builders created thousands of sacred earthen structures all across America. These native Indian cultures flourished for 4000 years before the first settlers came, creating mysterious giant earthen shapes of birds, bears, snakes, and alligator mounds, along with great conical mounds that held the bones of their leaders and loved ones. Who were these sophisticated and spiritual ancient people? They were talented shamans, farmers, hunters, fishermen, artists, and midwives who held special reverence for Mother Earth. Learn more about them and see some of their amazing artistic achievements inside The Mound Builders of Ancient North America. Study a detailed TimeLine that helps to place everything in exact perspective. See what was also happening elsewhere in the world during the Mound Builders heydays. Surprising fetes of engineering and geographic earthworks remind us that these ancient cultures held impressive worldviews.

Author : John Van Auken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780940829671
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mound Builders written by John Van Auken and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1997, a series of astounding developments have shattered American archaeology's most cherished beliefs. Excavations have uncovered solid evidence that acient America was settled at least 50,000 years ago. Genetic evidence shows that several waves of migrations came into America from not only Siberia, but also from Polynesia, China, and Japan. A mysterious genetic type has been identified in ancient American skeletal remains as well as in some modern Native Americans. This enigmatic type is linked to the Middle East and may well have originated in a location between America and Europe.Edgar Cayce, America's famous "Sleeping Prophet," gave 68 readings between 1925 to 1944 that provided information on America's Mound Builders and ancient American history. These readings have never been thoroughly analyzed and have been largely forgotten.For the first time, Cayce's statements about ancient America are compared to current archaeological evidence. Incredibly, nearly everything Cayce related about the Mound Builders is true. Well-documented and highly illustrated. This is a reissue of the book first released in 2001.

Author : Howard Griggs
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477726586
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Native American Mound Builders written by Howard Griggs and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American Mound Builders is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.9 and Literacy.L.3.1a. Readers will learn about several Native American mounds, gaining an understanding of what they are, why they were built, and who built them, in this book with color photographs and illustrations accompanied by narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with “Who Were the Mound Builders?" (9781477726235) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Author : Meghan C L Howey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188057
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600 written by Meghan C L Howey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds and impressive circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the region’s ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed, a period called Late Prehistory. In Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600, Meghan C. L. Howey uses archaeology to make this connection. She shows how indigenous communities of the northern Great Lakes used earthen structures as gathering places for ritual and social interaction, which maintained connected egalitarian societies in the process. Examining “every available ceramic sherd from every northern earthwork,” Howey combines regional archaeological investigations with ethnohistory, analysis of spatial relationships, and collaboration with tribal communities to explore changes in the area’s social setting from 1200 to 1600. During this time, cultural shifts, such as the adoption of maize horticulture, led to the creation of the earthen constructions. Burial mounds were erected, marking claims to resources and defining areas for local ritual gatherings, while massive circular enclosures were constructed as intersocietal ceremonial centers. Together, Howey shows, these structures made up part of an interconnected, purposefully designed cultural landscape. When societies incorporated the earthworks into their egalitarian social and ritual behaviors, the structures became something more: ceremonial monuments. The first systematic examination of earthen constructions in what is today Michigan, Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600 reveals complicated indigenous histories that played out in the area before European contact. Howey’s richly illustrated investigation increases our understanding of the diverse cultures and dynamic histories of the pre-Columbian ancestors of today’s Great Lake tribes.

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : New York Graphic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mound Builders of Ancient America written by Robert Silverberg and published by New York Graphic Society. This book was released on 1968 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the ancient Indian mound builders of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.